Chapter 102: Act Four
Chapter One Hundred and One
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Ji Changan looked into the car and said in surprise:
"Uncle Lin!"
I never expected that the person Zhao Wujia would pick him up would be Lin Youde.
Lin Youde held the car window with his left hand and the steering wheel with his right hand, grinning:
"Boy, get in the car! Uncle Lin will be your driver again."
Ji Changan quickly walked around the front of the car and sat in the passenger seat, saying casually:
"I'm really flattered. When did you buy a car, Uncle Lin?"
Lin Youde's eyes hopped and he hurriedly said, "This car is not mine. It was someone else who came to pick you up. I rushed to come when I was idle."
Ji Changan said regretfully: "That's it, I thought Uncle Lin, you have money to buy a car but don't have money to pay the rent."
Lin Youde smiled and didn't laugh, and he knew that this brat was waiting for him here!
He said angrily: "Why do I wait and let someone transfer this car to your name? I still have this face for you, Uncle Lin."
I was just a casual statement.
According to his understanding of Ji Changan's past, he didn't think this kid would accept it.
However, Ji Changan was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched the leather seat under his butt, with a heart-warming expression and tactful words:
"This... isn't that good? But the elders don't dare to refuse, so I will accept it. I can save some money every day when I go to work."
"Che"
The wheels rubbed rapidly with the ground, and Lin Youde stepped on the brakes and looked at Ji Chang'an with a strange expression.
He smacked his lips, stepped on the accelerator under his feet, shook his head and said:
"Chang'an, do you know what you worried us the most before?"
"The trees are fascinated by the forest, and the wind will destroy them?"
After absent-mindedly speaking, Ji Changan began to think about who the person who invited him to dinner tonight was.
If the Executive Director Zhao Wujia comes forward to invite him, his status and status are not too high.
And they also brought up Uncle Lin and Uncle Zhou who were about to leave. Could it be the people they knew?
However, I can count those I have known over the years and are not around me.
I roughly reviewed my list of poor and thin acquaintances, but found no candidates that matched the above situation.
Then Lin Youde's voice sounded again.
"Although I know you're kidding, we did have such concerns at first, but this is not what we are most worried about."
Lin Youde turned his head and looked at him while driving, and sighed:
"What we were most worried about and troubled at the beginning was the character of your desire to die than bow your head and ask others for help.
Not to mention bowing our heads and begging others, even our kindness that takes the initiative and does not seek rewards will be rejected by you at that time.
At that time, you would block all your kindness, malice, outside the door.
We try to get closer to you, but you will become more and more alienated from us and eventually drift away.
At that time, we felt that even the baby we gave birth to was far less difficult than you, a stinky brat.
You weave a field for yourself that will never be hurt, but called loneliness, as if you were drawing a jail, and then you hid in, closed the door tightly, leaving no gap for us.
This was the most obvious and serious during the period after Ye Yao's family moved away."
Ji Changan was confused when he heard this. Is this talking about himself?
He asked subconsciously:
"What about you later, you smashed my 'secret base' with a hammer?"
Lin Youde glanced at him with a deep impression, a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said with a big laugh:
"Someone did smash the shell you used to protect yourself, but it wasn't us..."
"But Lin Luoran!"
"So, we old people have always been sincerely grateful for the appearance of Luo Ranzi."
"If she hadn't forced you out of the 'secret base' back then, maybe until today, you would still be the one who was stubborn and willing to wander on the street without saying a word, but just observing the world silently, as if no matter how vast or magnificent the world is, it has nothing to do with you."
"Because of fear of being injured, all the ways to interact with people were blocked. This is what you were like in the past."
Ji Changan was silent for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "You must be fooling me, why don't I remember any of the impression?"
Lin Youde did not answer his words, slowed down the car and parked the car in a parking space on the side of the road.
After turning off the car, he untied his seat belt, patted Ji Changan on the shoulder, looked straight into his eyes, and said word by word:
"No matter what, I, Lao Lin, feel very relieved to see you now."
"We are never afraid that you will make any requests to us, but that you would rather die than accept our gifts and goodwill."
"Remember, Chang'an, we are a family!"
Ji Changan stared at the man's eyes in a daze, feeling like sand was in his eyes.
What happened to this Lin surname? He was almost gone and he started to sensationalize?
"Let's go, stinky brat, don't let the master of today wait in a hurry."
Lin Youde pinched Ji Changan's shoulder and drove off the car first.
Ji Changan followed closely behind and walked into an ordinary restaurant after Lin Youde.
It's six:17 pm now.
Ji Changan followed Lin Youde to outside a private room.
Just standing outside the door, I heard laughter coming from inside.
The atmosphere inside seems to be very harmonious?
With such doubts, Ji Changan walked into the private room.
At first glance, I saw the smiling old man sitting in the middle, Lin Luoran in two positions on the left hand of the old man, and Uncle Zhou who was talking beside him.
"Oh, Chang'an is here. I haven't seen you for a long time. Do you still remember me? Come and sit here!"
The old man waved to him enthusiastically and signaled him to sit between him and Lin Luoran.
Ji Changan was stunned for a moment and tentatively said, "Are you... Grandpa Chen?"
The old man said with relief: "I knew Chang'an would not forget me! It's not in vain that Grandpa Chen has been thinking about you all these years!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Huaizhi on one side almost sprayed all the tea in his mouth on the cheeky old thief's face.
But he measured the strength gap between the two sides in his heart, and finally he held back the tea from the end.
Ji Changan said with a blank expression: "Repay the money."
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The smile on the old man's face changed from gratitude to embarrassment. He rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly:
"Do you still remember...or I'll pay this meal to pay back?"
Ji Changan immediately cast a shocked look: "What do you mean? Did you not prepare to pay for the meal? Didn't you invite me to dinner?"
The old man surnamed Chen in front of him had had several social interactions with him five years ago, and he met him by chance on the road.
For example, when I met by chance on a bus, the school advocated respecting the elderly and loving the young, and gave up seats to the elderly. At that time, Ji Chang'an only hated respecting the elderly in front and loving the young in the back.
The last time we met was when the old man was dragged away by a hawker with a bitter face.
The reason was that the old man broke his object, but the old man searched through his pockets but couldn't find a single child.
Finally, Ji Changan thought that the two of them were destined to be together. They had met them seven or eight times and had a familiar face. So he generously took out the breakfast money to help him get rid of the situation.
Who would have thought that after the old man took the money he handed over, he would immediately turn around and run, and he would be a master of the dust.
In just a blink of an eye, he disappeared into his sight and the vendor.
He was stunned at the time and felt like he was fooled.
And now it seems...
He was really fooled.
Those coincidences and the last meeting of that year were probably the result of careful arrangements by the old man.
The old man surnamed Chen coughed a few times, gave Zhou Huaizhi a few winks, and signaled to help him get rid of the situation immediately.
As a result, Zhou Huaizhi held the teacup, looking at his eyes, nose, nose, mouth, and heart, as if he didn't see it, his ears were standing tall.
The old man surnamed Chen glanced at Lin Youde again, but saw Lin Youde flashing out of the box in time and leaving only the sentence "I'll go and let the boss serve the food."
In his heart, he lamented that his allies were not good, and the old man looked at Lin Luoran who had been chatting happily before, asking for help.
Lin Luoran took the opportunity to throw a look at Ji Chang'an. Ji Chang'an immediately walked over, sat down steadily, and never mentioned paying back the money.
He is not stupid. He just now was a disguised relationship. Minister Zhao of the Executive Department personally came forward to invite others. How bad is his identity?
Now even if someone tells him that the old man is actually Chen Fusheng, the lord of the East Realm, he dares to believe it!
The old man surnamed Chen was stunned, a smile flashed in his eyes, but he didn't care about the young man's little thoughts at all.
He grabbed Ji Chang'an and began to greet him.
Chapter completed!